<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span></span></div><div><var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var></div><div> </div><div><div><div> <div align="center"><font style="font-size: 28pt; text-decoration: underline;" size="3" face="Arial">IN PASSION OF JESUS IS WAY TO LIFE AND A FORCE THAT BINDS US
SPIRITUALLY AND EVEN PHYSICALLY</font></div>
<div align="left"><tt><font size="4" face="Arial"><img align="left" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_lcJwMb5fcYg/SL1C3eKbUJI/AAAAAAAAAGs/enNJoEdq3Bs/s1600/uesc_02_img0091.jpg" width="328" height="327"></font></tt><font size="4" face="Arial">The other day -- on
Palm Sunday -- a priest mentioned the intensely interesting aspects of a human
protein called laminin [<i>left</i> and below]. We have written about it before.
The interesting characteristics include the fact that seen under a microscope
it's shaped like a Cross -- and binds our cells together. </font></div>
<div align="left"><font size="4" face="Arial">The priest said that in one
microphotograph it even seemed like there was a corpus on the cellular
structure.</font></div>
<div align="left"><font size="4" face="Arial">Noted the <i>Truth or Fiction</i> website
(confirming it): "Laminin is defined by the Webster Medical Dictionary as a
'glycoprotein that is a component of connective tissue basement membrane and
that promotes cell adhesion.' In other words, looking at laminin as a kind of
glue isn't far from the truth."</font></div>
<div align="left"><tt><font size="4" face="Arial">The point of the homily: just as
laminin pervades and holds together the body, so should the Passion pervade us
and hold us together spiritually. The Crucifixion of our Lord is our glue --
whether we realize it or not. </font></tt></div>
<div align="left"><font size="4" face="Arial">Passions are funny things. When we have a
passion, we get lost in it. It is a reverie. We block out everything else. Look
at the example of a person playing a guitar -- really into it -- or eating a
special meal (or with gluttony).</font></div>
<div align="left"><font size="4" face="Arial"><img align="right" src="http://web.me.com/yocuzwaasup/Daniel_11_32/DANIEL_Blog/Entries/2011/6/11_Laminin_GODS_%22Saving%22_protein_files/laminin21.jpg" width="240" height="188">There are bad passions. They rot the flesh. We are consumed. There is
bad fruit from passion and then the tastefulness and beauty of the passion
fruit. Good passions send us into a state that can be transcendental. Both types
of passion are desires and when we desire something strongly it often brings
what we desire into reality. When the passion -- when the desire -- is good, we
often sacrifice or even suffer before we attain it (as did Jesus). This is the
main dictionary definition of the word "passion": to suffer, to endure. Good
desires create good reality and often require sacrifice and suffering of some
form -- whether simple labor or diligence or actual pain. When the passion is
bad -- when it is an overexcitement, or inordinate desire (which is the sixth
Webster definition of "passion") -- we will get what we want but suffer
<i>afterward</i>. </font></div>
<div align="left"><font size="4" face="Arial">We can mediate upon this during Holy Week.
What binds you? What blinds you? What are your passions? What are their fruits?
Do they hold together, or set apart? </font></div>
<div align="left"><font size="4" face="Arial">The reverie should be Christ. We should be
"lost' in Him. We should see through His eyes. We should revere Jesus, not food,
not money, not entertainment, not sex. This Sunday, as we sit down to eat, let
us seek the strongest "laminin." That's the "laminin" that not only holds our
bodies together but binds us to His transcendence.</font></div><div align="left"><font size="4" face="Arial"></font> </div><div align="left"><font size="4" face="Arial">source: <a href="http://spiritdaily.com/passionlaminin.htm">http://spiritdaily.com/passionlaminin.htm</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>